Examines how the ANC went from being a force of liberation to serving the economic interests of the elite few, arguing that South Africa's largest trade union's break from the ANC offers hope for changing South Africa's political terrain despite twenty years of state-corporate c…
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Examines how the ANC went from being a force of liberation to serving the economic interests of the elite few, arguing that South Africa's largest trade union's break from the ANC offers hope for changing South Africa's political terrain despite twenty years of state-corporate c…
"Based on case-studies in eight Latin American countries, this book investigates the extent to which there have been elite shifts, how new governments have related to old elites, and how that has impacted on environmental governance and the management of natural resources. New g…
Since colonial times the position of the social, political and economic elites in Latin America has been intimately connected to their control over natural resources. Consequently, struggles to protect the environment from over-exploitation and contamination have been related to…
Since the financial crisis, the issue of the 'one percent' has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic res…
Since the financial crisis, the issue of the òne percent' has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic rese…
Elites and governance in China
by Zang, Xiaowei, Kou, Jianwen
fromRoutledge studies on China in transition
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Type: Book
"This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the t…
"This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the t…
A collection of essays by Robert Dingwall on professions, especially law and medicine. This book introduces the essays with a foreword from the author, who places the work in context and offers some thoughts about how the work might be used by scholars in developing the field.
The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named after a passage in the Book …
